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It has begun. Okay, so it began a while ago, ever since natural gas companies first got wind of the news that their product produces fewer greenhouse gas emissions than the world's other favorite fossil fuels.

photo: Progress Ohio/Creative Commons New York's fracking reprieve just moved a step closer to being legally extended* for another year, with the state Assembly voting to pass a one-year moratorium on new drilling permits. It needs to pass the state

Bigger than four football fields, far eclipsing any naval aircraft carrier, and pretty generally terrifyingly huge, the largest floating object ever made by man will soon be a Shell natural gas processing plant. Just saying. The Washington Post has

Fracking, an abbreviation for hydraulic fracturing. A method used to extract natural gas from shale involving horizontal drilling, high pressures, lots of waters, lots of chemicals, resulting in toxic waste.

The New School's Tishman Auditorium was nearly filled to capacity yesterday afternoon for Water Fight! Fracking, Food, Art & Economy. Lots of great info on the building fight against fracking in the Marcellus

Lots of fracking news in the past couple of days (and a cool event in New York on Monday which it'd be really good if you went to, nudge, nudge). Add this one to the pile of evidence that it's probably a good time to reassess

New Jersey and France want to ban it; farmers and concerned citizens in Pennsylvania and New York are up in arms about it; documentaries about it were up for Oscars and put the industry in a tizzy; increasing numbers of studies say it's far more

What do New Jersey and France have in common? Both are considering banning entirely the increasingly controversial and environmentally damaging process of natural gas extraction popularly known as fracking. Check out the link below for New Jersey. In

A new seven-member study group has been tasked by Secretary of Energy Steven Chu to investigate the environmental impact of fracking. As the New York Times reports, the panel has 90 days to come up with recommendations to improve the safety of

As environmental media outlets turned their attention to the anniversary of the BP Gulf spill -- a year ago today -- yet another energy-related disaster occurred. A gas well owned by Chesapeake Energy in

If you ever had even an inkling that The Pickens Plan was far more about pushing technologies that would profit T. Boone as much if not more than benefit the United States as whole, let alone actually do anything about climate change, it's high time

Some good news/bad news or at least good news/interesting news on fracking, good news first: As TruthOut reports, New Jersey legislators have put forth a bill that would ban fracking in the state, making it the first state in the nation to do so. So

Add Algeria to the growing list of nations that choose to focus on the profits rather than the pollution of using fracking to extract natural gas from shale (that's hydraulic fracturing for those new to this issue).

For Gasland Director, Josh Fox, this has been a busy week. On Sunday, he was in Hollywood attending the Academy Awards, where Gasland was nominated for an Oscar as Best Documentary and on Tuesday he was back at work

New York Times has some more information on fracking that you should pay attention to, this time in regards to how EPA concerns about the environmental impact of the natural gas extraction procedure were actively downplayed, and impact studies

The New York Times has published an explosive article in its Sunday edition that features unreleased government documents that show levels of radiation in drinking water in some places are significantly higher than previously